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Dec 22, 2020 · All the soil and plants you'll find on Alcatraz today were brought to the island by people. Today, the restored historic gardens are lovingly maintained by a team of volunteer gardeners in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
Jan 5, 2018 · Through the Alcatraz Historic Gardens Project, the partner organizations preserve, rebuild, and maintain the gardens created by those who lived on the island during its military and prison eras, and interpret their history, horticulture, and cultural significance for visitors.
Mar 26, 2024 · Sol Mercado began gardening in earnest in 2017, at the tail end of her 16-year sentence at Central California Women’s Facility. One day, she noticed that something was being built in the prison ...
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“Being on an island means that composting is especially important as we would quickly run out of space to place our vegetation. By composting, we’re able to recycle most of our biomass back into the gardens as topdressing or use it for growing medium,” shares Shelagh, Because every year they add their compost back into the gardens, the soil is rich...
Other than rain water and fog drip, Alcatraz has no fresh water source. Both the military and the prison built cisterns to catch the rainwater, but these fell into disrepair after the prison closed. In 2009, the project team installed a rainwater catchment system. “I would love to be 100 percent sustainable for water,” says Shelagh. “We do have eno...
“Seabirds!” says Shelagh. Alcatraz is a protected nesting site for many types of seabirds including Western Gull, Brandt’s Cormorants, blue herons, pigeon guillemot, black-crowned night herons, snowy egrets, peregrine falcon, plus many song birds and hummingbirds. “The nesting season is from February through September so spring and summer is a grea...
Roses of Alcatraz Historic Gardens. Resident families introduced roses to Alcatraz during the military era, between 1850 and 1934. These early gardeners were undaunted by the island’s challenges—severe winds, and a lack of freshwater and topsoil.
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Mar 26, 2024 · The unlikely gardeners of Alcatraz Share In partnership with the Insight Garden Program, and with the assist of the Parks Conservancy's Senior Program Manager of Alcatraz Island, Shelagh Fritz, NPS Ranger Oliver Goodman have begun a plant exchange with the incarcerated women at Central California Women’s Facility.
Oct 21, 2020 · October 21, 2020. •20 min read. On a gigantic rock in the San Francisco Bay, purple dahlias sway in full bloom against a sapphire sky. Their presence is a paradox: What, exactly, are they doing on...
